the original story for the film. The film was originally set to star Linda Lovelace, but due to her personal problems at the time, she was recast in the secondary role of Natalie Morgan, before being dropped from the film completely. The same year, he produced Take All of Me directed by Luigi Cozzi. and co-written by Assonitis' wife, Sonia Molteni, based on her original idea. Assonitis' sophomore directing effort came after the tremendous box office success of Jaws, when he and American International Pictures produced Tentacles. The film included a star-studded cast including John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins and Henry Fonda. The film grossed $3,000,000 on a budget of just $750,000. In 1979, Assonitis produced The Visitor. The film was directed by Giulio Paradisi and featured another all-star cast, including John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford and Sam Peckinpah with a cameo appearance by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and an uncredited Franco Nero in the prologue. The film was originally a more straight forward story with a script by Lou Comici, where a child in Atlanta is possessed by a demon and a visiting exorcist from Poland is required to free the child. However, Paradisi rewrote the script to include more science fiction elements to avoid any associations with The Exorcist. The film was a commercial success in Europe upon release, but US distributor American International Pictures chose to recut the film, removing all of Franco Nero's speaking scenes and rearrange the order of some scenes, and the film was not a success. However, in 2013, independent distributor Drafthouse Films acquired the film. and re-released the remastered European cut in the United States. In the years since, the film has undergone a critical re-evaluation and now holds an approval rating of 78%, based on 18 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10 on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally positive reviews". Assonitis returned to directing in 1981 with Madhouse, however the film featured unknown actors and found itself alongside Assonitis' 1972 film, Man from the Deep River, on the infamous video nasty list, a list of horror and exploitation films banned in the United Kingdom by the BBFC in the 1980s for violence and obscenity and as a result, the film never saw a theatrical release in the United Kingdom.